Nailed it.

Let's start at the beginning. I had a moment of inspiration. Peanut butter blossom cookies, but with mini Reese's Peanut Butter Cups in the middle and chocolate covered pretzels for legs to look like spiders.

But, as with most things...this was not an original idea. As I was walking through the grocery store to buy my peanut butter cups, the image of the cutest cookies by Kristan popped into my head. Same idea, but with licorice legs. I *pinned* them last year! Duh. I decided to make them anyway, using the pretzels.

This was going to be something quick and easy that I could make after picking kiddo up from school and before dinner.

Try 2:peanut butter blossoms scooped in 2 TBSP scoops. Now the cookie is big enough to hold the pretzels, but the peanut butter cup looks too small. (Hint: wait a few minutes before adding the PB cup to reduce the excessive melting like the first batch.)

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Hahaha I laughed so much at your post! I love the Nailed It meme, I always end up with uncontrollable giggles. But yours were so cute -- you did nail it! Even the first little guy. :) They look so tasty. Thanks for posting!

Nothing like dedication to the cause. And perseverance. At least the subject matter is pretty fabulous. It's not like you're testing recipes for pea soup or something. LOL I think they're all adorable!

THANK YOU for sharing! So encouraging for us wanna bes!. I could show you a few of my attempts at frosting cookies like you do...and you just might cry! Or, I could show you the Ring cake (ring as in Lord of the RINGS) using my donut maker. The ideas was good, and easy, until I had to frost all the "rings". As a last stitch-effort of making Lord of the Rings themed cake, I stacked them, like a pyramid, and poured ganache over top. I called it Mount Doom. Which kinda fit considering how gloomy it looked.

It is frustrating when things don't turn out as we'd expect. Thank you for sharing your humanity. In today's world, I have to remind myself that I'm not superwoman and shouldn't strive to be. By the way, they look delicious.

Hahahaha, I had my own "nailed it moment" last night with soft cookies, thank God my kids are between 5-2 and ate the whole batch and didn't care how the frosting or the shape of those cookies looked! Hehehehe

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LMAO! At the first pic of the "doll eyes" I thought, "Eeww, those look like creepy eyes", then I read your comment. Hahaha! I'm glad it's not just me that has decorating fails. I did like one of the smaller ones with the pretzel legs--very tarantula-like! Maybe a 1tbsp or 1.5tbsp batch would work? Inbetween the 2tsp and the 2tbsp I think would be a good size. Thanks for sharing!

Hahaha! Bridge, I love this post. But, quite honestly, you had me at #1. That spider cookie at top center is pretty creepy! Love the legs on that one...like a tarantula. Very Halloweeny. Thanks for sharing, m'lady!

thank you for sharing. its so nice to see that everyone has kitchen mishaps ! a lot of bloggers seem to only post successes and beautiful photos but it truly is helpful when you post the process of what you went through and to remind us that no one is perfect in the kitchen !

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